Middleware Job Trends in Manchester

Middleware
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Middleware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 138 169
Rank change year-on-year -4 +31 +50
Permanent jobs citing Middleware 5 14 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.13% 0.61% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.24% 2.61% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4 8 8
10th Percentile £68,381 £64,621 -
25th Percentile £76,654 £64,905 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £71,991 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.54% +2.84% +1.71%
75th Percentile £94,063 £73,886 £75,000
90th Percentile £94,625 - -
North West median annual salary £75,000 £66,367 £70,000
% change year-on-year +13.01% -5.19% +17.60%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

Middleware falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 402 537 1,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.82% 23.38% 26.53%
Number of salaries quoted 341 366 855
10th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £82,548
North West median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +3.51% -0.87%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Middleware relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Middleware job vacancy trend in Manchester

Middleware
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Middleware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Middleware

Middleware
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Middleware in Manchester over the 6 months to 3 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Middleware in Manchester

Middleware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) JBoss
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) iPaaS
1 3 (60.00%) SaaS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) OneDrive
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) Boomi
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DHCP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Ant
1 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
1 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Scripter
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Windows DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Investment Management
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Release Management
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Groovy
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Podman
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Software AG
2 1 (20.00%) webMethods